Now organization admins can better control which widgets are available to their organization’s members.
The main menu order was updated to reach full parity between Figma and FigJam.
Figma fixed a number of bugs that should make your branch merges go a lot smoother.
Nathan Curtis wrote a really detailed 3‑part series on building a workflow to assure the quality of design system assets.
Congrats to all ten winners! Highly recommend going through the list and checking out these fantastic resources.
“Say goodbye to your drop shadow hacks. Now, you can apply individual borders to customize tables, lists, and single-sided panels.” This is one of my favorite updates!
Create more natural and fluid transitions for your prototypes with spring presets or a custom animation.
It’s finally here! Pro tip: open the Quick Actions panel (Cmd-/) and type “dark” to switch quickly and avoid going through nested menus.
Designers Joel Miller and Oscar Nilsson worked on the new Auto Layout together. In this thread, Joel talks about some of his favorite things about this release.
ICYMI, @oscrse and I talked about our design process behind the new version of Auto Layout! This project was all about the balance of complexity/simplicity and designing for the space between.
— Joel Miller (@joeltalksdesign) May 11, 2022
While you wait for the recording, here’s my top 5 highlights of Auto Layout in @figma pic.twitter.com/5LCYoUZcfK
”We’ve announced some new updates on Auto Layout at Config 2022, including negative spacing, absolute position, and more! In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through what’s new and what’s changed.”
Figma built a fantastic interactive page showing great possibilities provided by variable fonts and how to use them in Figma. It’s been a year since Toni Gemayel built the Variable Fonts plugin, and I’m happy it finally became a native feature.
Ridd shows why the new Instance Swap component property “blows the roof off of what we can do with components”.
Wow, instance swapping is about to blow the roof off of what we can do with components 🤯
— Ridd 🏛 (@Ridderingand) May 10, 2022
Here's how 👇 #config2022 pic.twitter.com/PiO0DjB2g3
Great improvement that wasn’t highlighted during the keynote.
Selecting similar layers right on canvas is probably my fav 1% improvement @figma rolled out today! pic.twitter.com/dStMGy5sfG
— Adam 🌻 Ruthendorf-Przewoski (@AdamPrzewoski) May 10, 2022
Andrey Okonetchnikov makes a case for thinking twice before introducing a boolean property when modeling an API of the component as it can hide complexity and introduce impossible states.
Hosts of the Design Details podcast, Brian Lovin and Marshall Bock, cover all of the exciting new releases from Config 2022 and do a deep dive into the new version of Auto Layout.
If you don’t have 30 minutes to watch Dylan’s keynote, check out the What’s New in Figma page showcasing all announced features in a beautiful way.
Figma CEO Dylan Field kicked off Config 2022 with opening remarks and the launch of 15 new features, ranging from favoriting files to a new version of Auto Layout. At this point, I’m more excited about Dylan’s keynotes than Apple’s. Love how every Config makes our lives better by addressing real problems and small annoyances.
The nomination process for the Community Awards is over, and now it’s time to vote for your favorite plugins and resources before Config on May 10th.
Six new shortcuts to change the view, navigate layers, and paste to replace.
A new plugin by Jordan Singer, creator of Automator. See his video on using the power of code to prototype inside of Figma.